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A few years ago, I sat in on a review of an impact report for a girls' education program in northern Nigeria. The headline number was impressive: 1,20...
You won't recognize the world your grandchildren live in. That's not hyperbole—it's the most honest starting point for any legacy plan written today. ...
You want to solve problems now. But your endowment policy says "perpetuity." The tension is real, and pretending otherwise only breaks trust...
Here's a scene: You've spent years crafting a legacy roadmap. You chose a trustee, wrote a letter of wishes, and funded a trust. But 50 years later, t...
Two years ago, the board of a mid-sized climate foundation reviewed its five-year strategic roadmap. The target was clear: reduce carbon emissions in ...
Foundations are built to last. But what if lasting is no longer the sound thing to do? A growing number of boards and trustees are confronting this qu...
Every year, millions of grant dollars vanish into programs with no measurable outcome. Not because of fraud — but because accountability was an aftert...
Ask a program officer what accountability means, and they will likely say 'measuring outcome.' Ask a grantee, and they might say 'trust.' These two de...
You are sitting on a pile of money—maybe $50 million, maybe $500 million. Your lawyer says: set up a foundaing, give in perpetuity, your name lives fo...
The question sounds academic until it lands on your desk: 'Do we shut the foundation down in twenty years or run it forever?' Most donors never answer...
Ten years ago, a foundation I advised decided to output a promising literacy program from three cities to thirty. They had the data, the board buy-in,...
Every philanthropist I know has a graveyard of good intentions. A climate initiative that folded after three grant cycles. A democracy project whose s...